SIMPLIFYING THE LANGUAGE OF LAW: PERCEPTIONS OF PAKISTAN’S LEGAL COMMUNITY ON PLAIN ENGLISH PRACTICES

Abstract

The study aims to determine the perceptions of law discourse community to revolutionize the legal settings by initiating Plain English Movement to achieve the academic and professional tasks efficiently in Pakistan. In this regard, data was gathered from 150 participants including, law practitioners and law teachers, of all provinces of Pakistan in the form of questionnaire followed by open ended questions. Data was analyzed qualitatively by employing thematic analysis. Majority of the law practitioners and teachers suggested to convert the legal documents including statutes and judicial judgments into simplified versions to achieve the academic and professional tasks. This study will be beneficial for legal stakeholders to achieve their tasks efficiently and get the justice speedy and different problems regarding complexity, length, obscurity, terminology, syntactic intricacy and time consuming process etc will also be resolved.